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Meagan Foy

Meagan Foy

Meagan Foy calls Newtown, CT her home. She is a James Madison University graduate with a degree in English, so you can always find her with a book. She also enjoys sitting on the beach and drinking coffee. She is the Senior Life Editor at The Tempest. You can learn more about her at meaganfoy.com.

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Meagan Foy

Nonfiction

From Radio to the Written Word: Elvis Duran on Paper

About a year ago, I was driving to work listening to “Elvis Duran and the Morning Show,” America’s most-listened-to Top 40-morning show and one of the 10 most-listened-to programs in all of radio, heard live by nearly ten million people every day. I was working for a literary PR firm,…
Meagan Foy
September 30, 2019
Fiction

Comic Book for Owners of Cats AND Babies

It's quite a statement, but one that us cat-lovers have come to accept. It is also a fact that The Oatmeal (Matthew Inman) delightfully exploited for us in How to Tell If Your Cat Is Plotting to Kill You and has continued it for us in his latest, Why My Cat…
Meagan Foy
June 5, 2019
Fiction

“City of Girls” is Elizabeth Gilbert’s Latest Gem

I've never read anything from Elizabeth Gilbert before I read City of Girls (Riverhead Books). The most I knew about her was that she once wrote a book called Eat, Pray, Love which was turned into a movie with Julia Roberts. No offense to Elizabeth or Julia, but there was one ad…
Meagan Foy
June 3, 2019
MiscellanyPop Culture

A Visual Guide to 20-Year-Old “Family Guy”

"Family Guy:" a cartoon that has vexed viewers, disgruntled parents and enflamed clergymen. While blunt to the point of blasphemy, in no small feat "Family Guy" has proved to be a wildly successful cartoon phenomenon, airing for 20 years and counting. No small feat. How many other adult cartoons can…
Meagan Foy
May 15, 2019
Nonfiction

A Family’s Journey to Enlightenment in India and Nepal

What a stark revelation for Dena Moes, some 10,000 feet high in view of the Annapurna peaks in Nepal during her family's eight-month, life-altering trip to India, chronicled in her charming debut, The Buddha Sat Right Here: A Family Odyssey Through India and Nepal (She Writes Press). To fully understand…
Meagan Foy
April 2, 2019
MiscellanyPop Culture

Joanna Gaines’ New Book Will Inspire Fixer-Uppers

Christmas came early for fixer-upper fans with the publication of Homebody: A Guide to Creating Spaces You Never Want to Leave (Harper Design) by Joanna Gaines. Homebody, filled with opportunities for easy and simple changes for your home, brings the reader into Joanna's farmhouse, invites you to get comfortable, and then…
Meagan Foy
November 21, 2018
Nonfiction

Colm Tóibín Examines the Fathers of Wilde, Yeats and Joyce

"A father...is a necessary evil," according to Stephen Dedalus in Ulysses. But Colm Tóibín would hazard a guess that James Joyce genuinely felt this way about his father. This is just one nugget of truth from Tóibín's latest non-fiction Mad, Bad, Dangerous To Know: The Fathers of Wilde, Yeats, and Joyce (Scribner).…
Meagan Foy
October 26, 2018
Thrillers

A Chat with “The Guilty Dead” Author P.J. Tracy

We chatted with P.J. Tracy, author of the thriller The Guilty Dead, now available to purchase. P.J. Tracy was the pseudonym of mother-daughter writing duo P.J. and Traci Lambrecht, winners of the Anthony, Barry, Gumshoe, and Minnesota Book Awards. Their eight novels, Monkeewrench, Live Bait, Dead Run, Snow Blind, Shoot To Thrill, Off the Grid, The Sixth Idea,…
Meagan Foy
October 16, 2018
Nonfiction

“Don’t Hide The Madness” Exposes Beat Movement

I’ve never been a big fan of the Beat poets, preferring the opinion of the fictional "Gilmore Girls" character Paris Geller holding that “The Beats’ writing was completely self-indulgent. I have one word for Jack Kerouac—edit.” But I decided to give the new nonfiction book of transcripts by William S. Burroughs…
Meagan Foy
October 15, 2018
Nonfiction

“Dear America”: A Raw Picture of Immigration

Immigration has never been so hotly debated, especially with the Midterm Elections coming up. But now, Jose Antonio Vargas' memoir has made that conversation all the more complicated. Dear America, Notes of an Undocumented Citizen (Dey Street Books) catalogs Jose's life beginning with his smuggling into the United States and ending with…
Meagan Foy
October 14, 2018